<rs type="textType">Restoration</rs>, by Kallikrates of the <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> made by his ancestors

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Four adjoining fragments from the upper part of a white marble statue base shaft without moulding (together 0.50 x 0.79 x 0.24). Top and bottom are lost, but both sides survive.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.022; ll.1-2 are cut more lightly than the rest.

Date

Document i: Late first century B.C. for ll. 1-2, Reynolds first favoured Julius as Caesar, but came to think of Octavian; Document ii: early second century. (prosopography, lettering)

Edition Νίκη πάρειμι θεογενεῖ Καίσαρι ἀεὶ θεοῖς Σεβαστοῖς καὶ τῶι Δήμωι τὴν Νίκην καὶ τὸν λέοντα Καλλικράτης Μολοσσοῦ ἱερεὺς Μηνὸς Ἀσκαινοῦ καὶ Ἑρμοῦ Ἀγοραίου τὰ προγονικὰ ἀναθήματα αὐτὸς ἐπισκευάσας ἀποκαθέστησεν
Apparatus

l.1: πα[ντ]είμ[ω ἀγάλματα?] MAMA, πά[ρ]ειμ[ι] Robert.

l.2: Καισάρε̣ι̣α εἰ MAMA, Καίσαρ[ι] ἀεί Robert

l.6: ἱε[ρεῦς Μῆνὸς Ἀσ]- MAMA

l.7: καινοῦ καὶ Ἑρ[μοῦ Ἀγοραίου τὰ] MAMA; ἀν[αθήματα πάντα] MAMA; [ἐπ]ισκευάσας [ἀποκαθέστησεν] MAMA.

Translation

I am Victory, always present with Caesar, the descendant of a god. For the gods Augusti and the People, the (statue of) Victory and the ?lion: Kallikrates son of Molossos, priest of Men Askainos and of Hermes of the Agora, prepared and restored the dedications of his ancestors.

Commentary

For the rededication, perhaps under an earthquake, the reign of Trajan seems probable. See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome 150-156, and also ‘Further information’, 109, ‘Ruler-cult’ 42-43.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: MAMA fragments found in a field wall north-east of the Stadium; other fragments stray finds. Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds), publications.

History of Recording

Two fragments recorded by the MAMA expedition; found again by the NYU expedition, together with further fragments (62.268 a and b, 69.328).

Bibliography

Two fragments published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 446, whence Lane, Berytus 15, 1964, 27-28, no. 3, Robert, Hellenica 13, 128-131, BE 1966.397, Lane, Corpus Mon. Dei Menis I no. 120, ll. 1-2. Published with new fragments Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 71-73, no. 1 whence SEG 30, 1980.1244-1245, BE 1982.355, AnnEpig 1980.866; republished by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 32, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.387, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 147 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 148

Photographs

Fragment (1977)
Assembled (1980)
Assembled (1980)